Céline Marie Claudette Dion
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Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland with Ne Partez pas sans Moi. She won Record of the Year in 1998 for My Heart Will Go On from Titanic. She has earned five Grammys, headlined a record-breaking Las Vegas residency, and sold over 220 million albums.
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The youngest of 14 children, Céline Dion was born in 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec. Her parents, Thérèse and Adhémar Dion, owned a small club where she performed with her siblings from an early age. At 12, she composed a song in French and sent it to a record company, catching the attention of manager René Angélil, who mortgaged his home to finance her debut album.
Dion won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with Ne Partez pas sans Moi. In 1991, she recorded the theme for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with Peabo Bryson, earning a Grammy and an Oscar. Her 1996 album Falling Into You sold over 25 million copies and won Album of the Year. In 1997, My Heart Will Go On from Titanic won Record of the Year. From 2003, she began a Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace, the most profitable act since Elvis Presley.
She married her manager René Angélil in 1994. They have three children: son René-Charles born 2001 and twin sons Nelson and Eddy born 2010. Angélil died in 2016 after a battle with cancer, and her brother Daniel died two days later. She lost her father in 2003. She has 13 siblings and maintains homes in Las Vegas and Quebec.
By 2006, Dion had sold over 220 million albums. She won five Grammys, including Album of the Year for Falling Into You and Record of the Year for My Heart Will Go On. Her 1988 Eurovision win introduced her to European audiences, and her Las Vegas residency became the most profitable act since Elvis Presley. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is a Companion of the Order of Canada. My Heart Will Go On remains her most recognized song.
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I Guess It All Depends on Your Nature. Some People Can’t Stand Being Alone. I Love Solitude and Silence. but When I Come Out of It, I’m a Regular Talking Machine. It’s All or Nothing for Me.
There’s Always a New Thing Happening to Me That’s Even More Extraordinary, so Pressure Gets Harder. but I Like It When It’s Hard. Anyone Can Do It When It’s Easy. When It’s Hard and You Can Do It Good, You’re Proud of Yourself. There’s Going to Be More Pressure as the Years Go By, That’s for Sure. but I Think I’m a Hard Worker and I’m Ready for That. as Long as I Believe in What I’m Doing, the Pressure Is Okay with Me.
For Me, Singing Was Real Life, Not Two Plus Two Equals Four.
I’ll Be a Quebecker Canadian. I’m from Quebec and Every Time I Go to a Country I Say That. It’s My Roots, My Origins and It’s the Most Important Thing to Me.
There’s One Way to Do Showbiz, If You Want to Do It Perfectly, You Have to Be Disciplined and You Have to Be Ready to Work Really Hard.
I’m Not Trying to Be a Nice Girl, but It’s Me. I’m Not Afraid to Be Nice.
I Think It Bothers People to See People That Are Happy and Successful. so They Try to Find What’s Wrong with Them. During My 30 Years in Show Business, I’ve Had Lots of Bad Vibes and Bad Reviews, but Between You and Me, If That’s Bad I Can Go for Another 30, Just Like That. I’m Not Losing Sleep. to Me, the Most Important Thing Is the Response of People Who Come to See Our Shows. They’re Telling Me to Keep Going.
I Only Record Songs That Touch Me in Some Way, Ones That I Can Relate To.
I’ve Always Been an ‘Open Book’ When It Comes to My Fans. They Are so Loyal to Me and Give Me Such Great Support That I Feel I Want to Share as Much of My Life with Them as I Can. They Are Part of This Journey a Big Part!
The Only Time I Did One Puff Was in Holland, Where It’s Legal. and I Went to a Cafeteria with Some Girls, with the Little Boats and the Canals and We Stopped and I Tried. Nothing. No. but I Didn’t Choke. I Took One Puff and I Said, ‘Okay, Nothing Happened!’ It Was Funny. It Was, for Us, Like Cheating. ‘Oooh!’ You Know, There Might Be Paparazzi!’
I Don’t Drink. I Don’t Smoke. I Shop.
Little-known facts about Céline Dion — origins, oddities, and behind-the-scenes details from a public life.
She performed on November 30, 2003, the same night her father died, and dedicated the show to him.
Soon after giving birth to her twin sons Eddy and Nelson, she admitted she initially expected triplets, but one of the babies had died.
Husband René Angélil mortgaged his house to fund Celine’s first album when she was an unknown 12-year-old.
She sings frequently in English and French, but has also sung in Spanish, German and Japanese.
She is three months younger than her stepson Patrick Angélil.
She first met her manager and future husband René Angélil when she was age 12 and he was age 38.
Born to Adhémar Dion 1923–2003 and Marie-Thérèse Tanguay March 20, 1927, Gaspésie region Québec – January 16, 2020, she is the youngest of 14 children; her mother had a TV cooking show called Maman Dion.
Her lucky charm is a 1968 Canadian nickel because she found one in Japan before going on stage to sing at the Yamaha song contest, which she won.
Because of her sharp-looking smile, Celine was known as Vampire Queen in high school.
Her niece Karine died of cystic fibrosis in her arms.
She named her fraternal twin sons Nelson and Eddy in honor of Nelson Mandela and Eddy Marnay, respectively.
Returned to work five months after giving birth to her twins to begin performing in the United States tour, Céline.
Won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland with the song Ne Partez pas sans Moi, written by Atilla Sereftug music and Nella Martinetti lyrics.
Her parents were both of French-Canadian ancestry; she and Madonna share a common ancestor, Zacharie Cloutier c. 1590–1677.
Her mother, Thérèse Tanguay Dion known as Maman Dion in Québec, is known for her culinary talents.
Has won five Grammy Awards since 1992, including Album of the Year in 1996 for Falling Into You and Record of the Year for My Heart Will Go On.
Her favorite songs include Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Show Must Go On by Queen, Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word by Elton John, Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin, Why by Annie Lennox, It Was a Very Good Year by Frank Sinatra, Home by Michael Bublé, Purple Rain by Prince, I Wish by Stevie Wonder, and Riders on the Storm by The Doors source: BBC Radio 2 Tracks of My Years.
She and her siblings sit on the board of Fondation Achille-Tanguay, later renamed Fondation maman Dion, which helps poor Québec families toward self-sufficiency.
She released a digital duet with Elvis Presley from one of his 1970s television performances on his 72nd birthday.
Céline played her last show at Caesars Palace on December 15, 2007, receiving 11 standing ovations, the first before she even finished her first song.
On January 5, 2000, she renewed wedding vows with husband René Angélil at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Her brother Daniel 59 died of cancer on January 16, 2016, two days after the death of her husband René.
She was awarded a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1999.
She has over 500 pairs of shoes.
Although not considering herself political, she tearfully criticized U.S. President George W. Bush regarding the Iraq War and his slow response to Hurricane Katrina victims on Larry King Live.
Many consider her 1987 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with Jay Leno filling in and her black-and-white video remix of Michael Jackson’s Bad her best early English-speaking performances.
Siblings: Denise, Clément, Claudette, Liette, Michel, Louise, Jacques, Daniel, Ghislaine, Linda, Manon, Paul, and Pauline.
On February 23, 2001, she was awarded the domain name celinedion.com by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization from cybersquatter Jeff Burgar.
Started a restaurant chain in Québec called Nickels 1990, later introduced in Ontario.
At age 16, Céline sang Une colombe for Pope John Paul II at the Montreal Olympic Stadium in front of 65,000 people.
Her performance residency at Caesars Palace from March 2011 to June 2019 is the most profitable act since Elvis Presley; initially contracted for three months, it extended due to success.
Recorded a duet with Barbra Streisand titled Tell Him.
The first record album she ever bought was Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book 1972.
She was awarded the Companion of the Order of Canada on October 23, 2008, and invested on July 26, 2013.
Originally recorded Dreams to Dream for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West but it was rejected by Steven Spielberg; she later recorded Beauty and the Beast with Peabo Bryson.
She has her own magazine, Celine Dion Magazine.
Holds a Guinness World Record for selling the most French-language album of all time for D’eux over 6.4 million copies; the album also went to number one in England.
In 1998, she was honored by two governments in two days: on April 30, Québec awarded her the Ordre National du Québec, and on May 1, she became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
By 2006, she had sold an estimated 220 million albums during her career.
She has homes in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Laval and Terrebonne, Quebec.
Building a home in Las Vegas, where in March 2003 she began giving 200 performances a year for three years in a special theater built by Caesars Palace, paid $100 million for the deal.
Born at 12:15 PM EST.
Her sister Linda lives with her, along with husband René Angélil and son René-Charles.
Has promoted the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation since 1982, becoming National Celebrity Patron in 1993.
Has her own brand of perfume called Celine Dion: Parfum.
Owns the golf club Le Mirage in Terrebonne near Montreal.
Forbes estimated her 2007 earnings at $45 million.
Was in talks to star alongside Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Runaway Bride 1999.
Was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada on January 6, 1998, and invested on May 1, 1998.
Endorses an eyewear line sold in Canada and Europe.
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